To refer to a genus page, put ''':Category:''' (noet the ''':''' at the start and end of the word Category (this is very mporttant)), then a '''|''' and the genus name e.g.

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To refer to a genus page, put ''':Category:''' (note the ''':''' at the start and end of the word Category (this is very important)), then a '''|''' and the genus name e.g.

<nowiki>'''''[[:Category:Lepidozamia|Lepidozamia]]'''''</nowiki>

<nowiki>'''''[[:Category:Lepidozamia|Lepidozamia]]'''''</nowiki>

results in '''''[[:Category:Lepidozamia|Lepidozamia]]'''''

results in '''''[[:Category:Lepidozamia|Lepidozamia]]'''''

Latest revision as of 08:23, 17 November 2013

Welcome to the Pacsoa Wiki! If you're a first timer here please read this before publishing any edits in the website.

This website is a Wiki, which means that anyone can edit it whenever they please. Feel free to write as you will, but always keep in mind that vandalism will not be tolerated.
If you need more help with editing or anything leave a message on any one of the Administrator's talk pages.

Before submitting any new pages to the Wiki, please check that the information you are to submit is not already published in any other pages. This makes the admins work easier. Thanks!

Headings and subheadings

Headings and subheadings are an easy way to improve the organization of an article. If you can see two or more distinct topics being discussed, you can break up your article by inserting a heading for each section.

Headings can be created like this:

==Main heading== (2 equals signs)

===Subheading=== (3 equals signs)

====Another level down==== (4 equals signs)

=====Another level down===== (5 equals signs)

If an article has at least three headings, a table of contents (TOC) will be automatically generated. Try creating some headings in the Sandbox and see the effect on the TOC.

Indenting

To indent text, place a colon (:) right at the beginning of a line. The more colons you put, the further indented the text will be. A newline (pressing Enter or Return) marks the end of the indented paragraph.

For example:
This is aligned all the way to the left.

:This is indented slightly.

::This is indented more.

is shown as:
This is aligned all the way to the left.

This is indented slightly.

This is indented more.

Bullet points

To insert a bullet, use an asterisk (*). Similar to rectal indentation, more asterisks in front of a paragraph means more indentation.

A brief example:

*First list item

*Second list item

**Sub-list item under second

*Isn't this fun?

Which is shown as:

First list item

Second list item

Sub-list item under second

Isn't this fun?

Numbered lists

You can also create numbered lists. For this, use the number sign or hash symbol (#). Using more #s will affect the level of indenting.

Example:

#First item

#Second item

##Sub-item under second item

#Third item

Shows up as:

First item

Second item

Sub-item under second item

Third item

Tables

You can also create tables, however this is a bit more complicated. Go here to find out about creating tables.

Blank lines etc

To get a blank line in the page, just leave a blank line in the text.

To force a clear separation between 2 sections, enter

<br clear=all>

for example where the text and images are becoming to intertwined, put the above in and it will separate it all out.

Images

Uploading

To upload an image, simply drag it onto the dark blue/grey band that says "Drop files here" at the top of the edit box, then click "Click here to upload file". If there is already a file of that name in the Wiki, then a warning message will be displayed. Only overwrite a file if you are absolutely sure that you want to update that particular image. If you aren't updating an image, then it would be best to clear the list, and then rename the file so that there aren't any name clashes. Its usually best to use a naming convention like "Genus_speciesXX.jpg", where XX is the next consecutive file number (you can see all the other filenames in the page that you are editing).

Displaying

Once the filename is fixed, there is a wide variety of image formatting options, however on this wiki we always use the following style:

[[File:filename.extension|alignment|frame|caption]]

where alignment can be left, right, or center, frame is always frame (it just puts a thin border around the image), and caption always starts with a Figure x.

Links

Internal links

You can extensively cross-reference wiki pages using internal links. You can add links to existing titles, and also to titles you think ought to exist in future.

To make a link to another page on the same wiki, just put the title in double square brackets. Species pages have the naming convention Genus_species so they can be referenced like that, but that puts an underscore in the name e.g.

External links

It is often more useful to make the link display something other than the URL, so use one square bracket at each end, with the alternative title after the full URL address, separated by a space (not a pipe). So if you want the link to appear as Google search engine, just type:

You can create templates. After you create the page Template:XXX, using the command {{XXX}} will include that content in your current page. So, if you have something that needs to be included on many other pages, you might want to use a template.

Most templates available on the Central Wikia can be used on individual wikia with just "wikia:" prefixed to the name. See the help page on Central at Wikia:Help:Shared templates.

Special pages

Special pages are dynamic pages provided by the Wiki application to show information about the contents of the Wiki. Not every page might be very interesting for everybody in daily use, so here is the list of useful pages: